Opinion
No. 10967.
Argued March 9, 1967.
Decided May 24, 1967.
Channing L. Richards, Charlotte, N.C., (R. Roy Mitchell, Jr., Durham, N.C., Richards Shefte, Charlotte, N.C., and Nye Mitchell, Durham, N.C., on brief) for appellant.
William D. Hall, Washington, D.C., (Thornton H. Brooks, Greensboro, N.C., Moore Hall, Washington, D.C., and McLendon, Brim, Brooks, Pierce Daniels, Greensboro, N.C., on brief) for appellee.
Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and HARVEY, District Judge.
This case involves Patent No. 3,006,035, relating to a drive for textile carding machines, issued October 31, 1961, to Josef K. Gunter and now owned by Gunter Cooke, Inc., plaintiff below, appellant here. All claims of the patent were held to be invalid but, assuming validity, the court further held that the defendant was guilty of infringement.
In a well-considered opinion the district court found and determined that drives incorporating the principles of the drive described in the patent in suit were in public use in regular commercial operation and had been described in printed publications more than one year prior to the date of the patent application, 35 U.S.C.A. § 102(b); that the patent specification failed to meet the statutory requirement of particularity and distinctness, 35 U.S.C.A. § 112; and, that the subject matter of the patent did not rise to the level of invention.
Gunter Cooke, Inc. v. Southern Electric Service Co., 256 F. Supp. 639 (D.C.M.D.N.C. 1966).
We find no error in the decision below and affirm for the reasons stated by the district court.
Affirmed.